Quotes about Brutality

Most British citizens had never seen anyone branded or whipped or subjected to thumbscrews. They had no idea that conditions on West Indian sugar plantations were so brutal that most of the slaves were literally worked to death in just a few years and most of the female slaves were too ill to bear children.

It is only our humanity that can deliver us from the brutality of our achievements.

For human community life cannot long endure on a basis of crude force, brutality, terror, and hate.

The meeting between ignorance and knowledge, between brutality and culture—it begins in the dignity with which we treat our dead.

Ideas are the great warriors of the world, and a war that has no idea behind it, is simply a brutality.

Ideas are the great warriors of the world, and a war that has no idea behind it, is simply a brutality.

Since the desires for power and control are in every heart, you don't have to look overseas for lawless brutality. It happens every day between parents and children, boyfriends and girlfriends, husbands and wives. Where there is injustice, shame will be part of its fallout.

For the good of all, I say: Be careful, the brutality of the world must not be more powerful or attractive than love and friendship.

The natives used to tie their enemies to the tree. The ants would eat them alive.

Such brutality is required because dissenters, subversives, artists, poets, and prophets invite thought that the regime is not absolute, that its claims to legitimacy are not ultimate, that its policies are not beyond criticism nor its practices beyond destabilization.

The SILENCE of the good people is more DANGEROUS than the BRUTALITY of the bad people

In modern war... you will die like a dog for no good reason.